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DIRECTOR
REV. H. P. ANDERSON, D. D.
PASTOR
BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH

TREASURER
DR. JOHN R. HAWKINS
FINANCIAL SECRETARY OF THE 
A. M. E. CHURCH

Sesqui-Centennial Honor Roll Memorial

COMMITTEE
MRS. MAUDE A. MORRISSETT
MRS. LENA TRENT GORDON
MRS. BERTHA PERRY RHODES
HON. SAMUEL B. HART
JOHN W. LOVE
FORRESTER B. WASHINGTON
RAYMOND PACE ALEXANDER, Att'y
ISADORE MARTIN
JOHN P. TURNER, M. D.
C. A. LEWIS, M. D.
ARTHUR W. LYNCH
WILLIAM H. JONES

HEADQUARTERS: CARE OF BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH
SIXTH STREET BELOW PINE
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

August 6th, 1925.

Mr. H. O. Tanner, 
Trepied par Etaples,
P de C, France.

Dear Mr. Tanner:

I am writing you so that you may fully understand the present situation in reference to the tablet.

Bishop Heard saw fit to move me from the pastorate of Mother Bethel Church and appointed Dr. J.C. Beckett as pastor.  I am not questioning his right to do this since I had served the church five years and succeeded nicely.  Dr. Beckett does not want to have anything to do with the tablet.  Unfortunate for all concerned, the Trustees of Mother Bethel Church are a set of men who, on average, are quite illiterate and do not and cannot see the bigness of the tablet.  They have put one hundred ($100.00) dollars into the project.  They are unwilling to push it and do not give me the authority to do so, on the ground that I am no longer pastor and think that delay will kill it.  I have asked Mr. Alexander to permit me to take over the contracts and I presume he is waiting to hear from you or secure authority to act. 

My proposal to him and to you is as follows:
Take over the contracts to have you mold the tablet in Paris.  Let the replica be molded in this country under the supervision of your representative and save the oversea cost.

As I see it now there will be placed on the tablet all the Bishops and General Officers as you saw on the sketch.  Also and Honor Roll of 150 names, each of these names sponsored by some noted person as you will see by the enclosed folder. 

Secretly there are a few men who are trying to kill the proposition which is a result of jealousy and prejudice.  Up to the present we have secured seventy sponsors and they will pay one hundred ($100.00) dollars each.  One